Rachel Benavides

I am passionate about balancing my expertise in donor and grant award compliance with responsive project management and equitable grantmaking, ensuring agreements and processes contribute to strong partner relationships, recipient capacity building, accountability to communities, and overall project success.

I am a project and grants and contracts manager with over 12 years of experience managing grants, contracts, subgrants, and subcontracts for large, multi-stakeholder international development and social impact programs funded by major foundations (MacArthur Foundation, Democracy Fund, Ford Foundation), bilateral agencies (USAID, GAC, Australia DFAT, USDOS), multilateral agencies (UNDP, World Bank), individual donors, and corporate donors (Google, Meta).